Merito connected a global AI patent company directly to the leadership of Japan's top research universities.

The challenge

XLScout, a global AI patent search and drafting company, arrived in Japan wanting inroads with the academic institutions where its product unlocks the most IP value.

What Merito did

Merito opened direct lines to the leadership of two elite Tokyo universities, framing the technology around what Japanese universities are measured on: licensing revenue and confidentiality of unpublished inventions.

The outcome

Japanese licensing income runs roughly 65 times below the U.S. Merito enabled XLScout to capitalize on that gap.